selenium

See also: Selenium and sélénium

English

Chemical element
Se	Previous: arsenic (As)
	Next: bromine (Br)

Etymology

A New Latin word derived by Swedish chemist Berzelius in 1818, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “moon”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈliː.ni.əm/, /səˈliː.ni.əm/

Noun

selenium (usually uncountable, plural seleniums)

1. A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34.
2. A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• hydroselenic acid
• metallic selenium
• selane
• selen-
• selenate
• seleniate
• selenic acid
• selenide
• seleniferous
• selenio-, seleno-
• selenious acid

• selenite
• selenium cell
• selenium dioxide
• selenium eye
• selenium hydride
• selenium oxide
• selenium sulfide, selenium sulphide
• seleniuretted
• seleno-
• selenous
• selenyl

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: seleen
• Albanian: selen
• Arabic: سِلِينْيُوم‏‎ m (silinyum)
• Armenian: սելեն (hy) (selen)
• Asturian: seleniu m
• Basque: selenioa
• Belarusian: селе́н m (sjeljén)
• Breton: seleniom
• Bulgarian: селе́н (bg) m (selén)
• Catalan: seleni (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硒 (zh) (xī)

• Cornish: selenyum
• Czech: selen (cs) m
• Danish: selen (da) n
• Dutch: seleen (nl) n, selenium (nl) n
• Esperanto: seleno (eo)
• Estonian: seleen (et)
• Faroese: selen n
• Finnish: seleeni (fi)
• French: sélénium (fr) m
• Friulian: seleni
• Galician: selenio (gl) m
• Georgian: სელენი (seleni)
• German: Selen (de) n
• Greek: σελήνιο (el) n (selínio)
• Hebrew: סלניום‏‎ (he) (selenyum)
• Hindi: मेचाग्नि (mechaagni)
• Hungarian: szelén (hu)
• Icelandic: selen (is) n
• Interlingua: selenium
• Irish: seiléiniam (ga)
• Italian: selenio (it) m
• Japanese: セレン (ja) (seren)

• Kashubian: selén
• Kazakh: селен (kk) (selen)
• Korean: 셀렌 (ko) (sellen), 셀레늄 (sellenyum)
• Latin: selenium (la)
• Latvian: selēns
• Lithuanian: selenas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Selen
• Macedonian: селе́н m (selén)
• Malay: selenium
• Maltese: selenju
• Manx: shellainium
• Mongolian: селен (selen)
• Norwegian: selen (no)
• Polish: selen (pl) m
• Portuguese: selénio (pt) m (Portugal), selênio (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: seleniu (ro) n
• Russian: селе́н (ru) m (selén)
• Scottish Gaelic: seilèiniam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: селен m, селениј m

  Roman: selen (sh) m, selenij (sh) m

• Slovak: selén (sk) m
• Slovene: selen (sl) m
• Spanish: selenio (es) m
• Swedish: selen (sv) n
• Tagalog: selenyo
• Tajik: селен (selen)
• Tamil: செங்கந்தகம் (ceṅkantakam)
• Thai: ซีลีเนียม (sii-lii-nîiam)
• Turkish: selenyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: селе́н m (selén)
• Uzbek: selen (uz)
• Welsh: seleniwm (cy)
• West Frisian: seleen

References

• “Selenium” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database^[1], 1997–.
• selenium mindat.org^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

See also

• selenium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• emulsine, semilune, seminule

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Se	Previous: arseen (As)
	Next: broom (Br)

Noun

selenium (uncountable)

1. selenium

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: se‧le‧ni‧um

Etymology

From New Latin selēnium, a word derived by Swedish chemist Berzelius in 1818, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “moon”).

Noun

selenium n (uncountable)

1. selenium

Synonyms

• seleen

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “moon”) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seˈleː.ni.um/, [sɛˈɫeː.ni.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈle.ni.um/, [seˈleː.ni.um]

Noun

selēnium n (genitive selēniī); second declension

1. (New Latin) selenium

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	selēnium	selēnia
genitive	selēniī	selēniōrum
dative	selēniō	selēniīs
accusative	selēnium	selēnia
ablative	selēniō	selēniīs
vocative	selēnium	selēnia

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Malay

Chemical element
Se	Previous: arsenik (As)
	Next: bromin (Br)

Etymology

From English selenium, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [selɛniom]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

selenium

1. selenium (chemical element)

• ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988